True and False Paths in Spiritual Investigation

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True and False Paths in Spiritual Investigation

Rudolf Steiner Archive Document

Lectures Section

Differences of Consciousness in Ancient and modern Times -
Spiritual Knowledge important for purposes of Healing -
Metals and their Effects upon Consciousness -
Differentiation of the Historical Epochs and their Spiritual Background -
Life-periods as Organs of Cognition - The School of Chartres -
Potential Aberrations in Spiritual Investigation, e.g. Mediumship -
Elementary Beings - Influences of the Sun and Moon -
Dream Life and Somnambulism - The Metamorphosis of Consciousness -
Revelation of the Divine through Art
Steiner delineates the different states of consciousness experienced by
people in past ages and their methods of initiation. He discusses in depth
the relationship of the seven metals to the different states of
consciousness. Today, because we are constituted differently, we can
develop higher perception only through purely spiritual forces. Many
other spiritual facts are detailed in these absorbing esoteric studies.

By Rudolf Steiner

Differences of Consciousness in Ancient and modern Times —
Spiritual Knowledge important for purposes of Healing —
Metals and their Effects upon Consciousness — Differentiation
of the Historical Epochs and their Spiritual Background —
Life-periods as Organs of Cognition — The School of Chartres —
Potential Aberrations in Spiritual Investigation, e.g. Mediumship —
Elementary Beings — Influences of the Sun and Moon —
Dream Life and Somnambulism —
The Metamorphosis of Consciousness —
Revelation of the Divine through Art

Steiner delineates the different states of consciousness experienced
by people in past ages and their methods of initiation. He discusses
in depth the relationship of the seven metals to the different states
of consciousness. Today, because we are constituted differently, we
can develop higher perception only through purely spiritual forces.
Many other spiritual facts are detailed in these absorbing esoteric
studies.

Eleven lectures given in August of 1924 at Torquay, England from the
lecture series entitled,
The Consciousness of the Initiate.
Published in German as,
Das Initiatenbewusstsein. Die wahren und die falschen
Wege der geistigen Forschung.
This volume is presented here with the kind permission of the Rudolf
Steiner Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach, Switzerland.
From Bn 243, GA 243, CW 243.